I’m derailing this conversation a bit.  But I still like “become”.  And though it’s not necessary in Go, Alef had it and it was cool.


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On Oct 7, 2026, at 7:22 AM, Rob Pike <[email protected]> wrote:


Or the first production Go compiler, which is a kenc at heart.

-rob


On Wed, Oct 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM Skip Tavakkolian <[email protected]> wrote:
Could it be you're thinking of section 4.3 (functions returning
structures) here?
https://9p.io/sys/doc/compiler.pdf

Alef has tuples, which might have caused the confusion?


On Wed, Oct 7, 2026 at 12:05 AM Pouya Tafti <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm under the impression that at some point years ago I came across a version of kenc with multi-return.  But I haven't been able to find any trace of it and now wonder if I imagined it.
>
> Can anyone here by any chance help me figure out which is the case?
>
> Thanks,
> Pouya
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